Love you will find only where you may show yourself weak without provoking strength.
The almost insoluble task is to let neither the power of others, nor our own powerlessness, stupefy us.
Auschwitz begins wherever someone looks at a slaughterhouse and thinks: they’re only animals.
Everything that has ever been called folk art has always reflected domination.
The law of the innermost form of the essay is heresy
For a man who no longer has a homeland, writing becomes a place to live.